Work In Progress

Pictured here, my dining room table:

As you can see, it's a mess.

Odds and ends, pieces, parts, leavings, important and non-essential cluttering up my work space.

I always get a little overwhelmed in the middle of a large project-especially a project rather outside my comfort zone--a project that will be viewed by many ladies in our church at our Ladies Bible Study Kick-Off dinner this week.

I'm also in charge of decorations (which I am foolishly hand-crafting)--tableware, centerpieces (which I will also be making--edible centerpieces...mmmm), etc.

I've bitten off a bit more than I can chew and as I look at this pile of unfinished stuff-

-my work in progress, I feel like it will never be finished.

Sometimes I feel the same way about myself--I'm such a work in progress--I am introverted and self-centered--I didn't want to say "yes" to this big project--but I did and in working on it little by little I have been blessed by a million little details.

These details won't matter to anyone-no one else will see them or know they are there--but they are and that is what matters.

I prayed that God would guide me as I spent church funds--that the work of my hands might bless others--but I find myself being blessed most of all by the little provisions He has made.

He knew what project I would make before I decided (from my pile of 5 test runs), He knew that I would find exactly what I needed, for a good price at each store I went to.

He knew exactly how much I would need of each material and has provided it.

Sometimes, for me, the biggest blessings in life lay in the details--the little things.

The little things, most of all, show me how much He cares.

The little things surround me and I am thankful for it.